Masters in Health Administration (MHA)
Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California

Bachelor of Science, Health Science: Community Health (BS)
Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota

Bachelor of Science, Healthcare Management
Regis University

Masters of Science, Informatics and Health Information Management
Regis University
2015

Cortney comes to us with a B.S in Healthcare Management and a M.S in Informatics and Health Information Management from Regis University in 2015. Her academic background is flanked by her industry knowledge. Cortney is another example of the scholar-practitioner that we are proud to engage with. She has worked as both an applications analyst and a consultant in 2007. The list of experiences to which she offers her students includes; small and large implementations, clinical optimization of clinical application and technologies, work on CMS and Meaningful Use projects and RFP submission process.

Master of Science, CIS
University of Phoenix

Bachelor of Science, BIS
University of Phoenix

M.A.
University of Michigan

B.S.
Baker College

Ed.S.
University of Michigan

Master of Science, Health Informatics
University of South Florida

BS, Business Administration
University of Miami

BS, Respiratory Care
Medical School of Georgia

Masters, Biomedical Informatics
Nova Southeastern University

Doctor of Health Science
Nova Southeastern University
2016

Dr. Richard Castro is an experienced healthcare professional/instructor with a demonstrated history of working in both the hospital and academia. Dr. Castro, skilled in healthcare informatics, electronic medical records, healthcare information technology,  has a strong interest in telemedicine.

Dr. Castro’s healthcare experience is in respiratory therapy, which he continues to practice as a COPD educational coordinator at a county hospital in Southeast Florida. He also has had experience in the hospital’s clinical informatics department as a clinical analyst and continues to assist the hospital as an EMR safety star on an as-needed basis. Dr. Castro’s traces his IT experience back over 25 years ago when he worked in the corporate office of a pharmacy chain doing software and hardware support for the company’s pharmacy prescription system.

Dr. Castro’s education spans a period of approximately 30 years, beginning with a Bachelor’s in Finance from the University of Miami in 1989. Next, he received a Bachelor’s of Science in Respiratory Care from the Medical College of Georgia in 1997. Dr. Castro returned to school to merge his two great loves, computers, and healthcare: he graduated with a Master’s in Biomedical Informatics from Nova Southeastern University in 2010.  In 2016, he graduated from Nova Southeastern University’s Doctor of Health Science program.

M.S. Health Informatics
University of Illinois at Chicago

Certificate in Health Informatics
University of California, Davis

B.A., Communications
Xavier University

Master of Science, Nursing Informatics
American Sentinel University

Bachelor of Science, Nursing
Malone University

M.B.A.
University of Illinois

M.S. Medical Informatics
Northwestern University

B.S. Computer Engineering
University of Illinois

Imran Khan currently serves on the leadership team at ABBVie, a large Bio-Pharmaceutical research firm (formerly Abbott Laboratories). Previously, Imran worked for Advocate Health Care where he led the Electronic Health Records implementation, Meaningful Use, and Patient-Centered Medical Home teams for the largest community of hospital affiliated physicians in the United States. In other roles, Imran worked for GE Healthcare and Walgreens where he developed and supported several clinical and pharmaceutical applications.

Additionally, Imran served on the Greater Chicago Chapter HIMSS Board of Directors for several years and continues to work with student communities and healthcare IT professionals in their professional development.

Hailing from Missoula, Montana; when he isn’t busy sharing his passion for clinical informatics, you can often find him on the ski hill or out exploring with his two boys.

Ph.D, Health Services
Walden University

Masters of Science, Healthcare Administration
University of Maryland

Ed.D. Higher Education Leadership, Concentration in Program Evaluation
University of Rochester

M.S., Health Systems Administration
Rochester Institute of Technology

B.A, Community Medicine
University of Rochester

Working in public health offeres opportunities to conduct research, get involved in public policy, and work with people. Working in the health fiels is rewarding as one is able to improve the health of groups of people. Given my education and work experience, I evaluate healh programs providing stakeholders with important information to aid their decision making efforts.

Doctor of Philosophy, Biomedical Informatics
University of Utah

Doctor of Pharmacy
Purdue University

Pharm.D.
University of Charleston

M.S.
Marshall University

B.S.
Wilkes University

Bachelors of Science
Colorado State University

Masters of Science
Misericordia University